Sharron's Blog: My Mysterious Walmart Encounter!

 Thursday, January 13, 2022

Today, I decided to venture out to town [Hiram, GA] for some much needed groceries considering I got paid today. [By the way I purchased same things and my groceries were double!] Anyway, back to my Encounter. I went down to pet care isle, to get some fur kid treats and food, when a stranger approached me while I was checking out dog chews. He was a very pleasant looking young [to me]man, bible in hand around 45+/- and asked: "Ma'am, could I share a daily Bible verse with you?"  I said, "yes, I'd be glad to as I am a believer and love the Word of God." He opened his Bible and began reading from book of Revelation. This is what he read: 

Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10 (NKJV) Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. [2] He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; [3] and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. [7] Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison [8] and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. [9] They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. [10] The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Now as he finished his reading I spoke up and told him, "I have a bible study going on right now at my house and we are studying the book of Revelation." 

He said: "Ma'am, you are one of these fallen angels that were cast out of heaven down here to earth and I'm warning you"... I became filled with "righteous indignation" [I'll call it] and said: "I'm sorry but I know the Word and am a born again, blood washed believer in Jesus Christ as my personal savior and have been for most of my life. When I was 5 years old, I actually died and saw the Lord, I know Him and He knows me. I continued... "I am on my pastor's prayer team, and  am very active in my church, so you are mistaken, as I am not a fallen angel! He kept telling me I was cast out of heaven down here to earth and God was getting ready to pass judgement on me, that he had just read to me [verse 10!] 

Finally I had had enough of this weirdo and tried telling him very softly, to please leave and that I did not want to hear anything else he had to say, but he said: "Look, I know things, and I can see things, I can tell you, you are one of these fallen angels and judgement is coming against you that I just read"... to which I again said: "Please leave me alone and go find someone else to talk to as I am through talking to you, please leave me now, and have a nice day!" I turned and walked away. I should have remembered this verse: "Matthew 7:6 (NKJV) "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

I was so shocked at this Encounter and in my 73 years I have to say, this was the strangest to date.  I wondered how believers that were not strong in their relationship with the Lord or God's Word, would have handled this Encounter, as I myself questioned why me, of all people in Walmart, did he seek me out to tell me this...[and did he think all shoppers were fallen angels?] I left the encounter, asking the Lord, "what was that all about?  What made that man think I am a fallen angel cast out of heaven and what religion thinks this way? 

Does anyone out there reading this know what religion would believe such things? I am still perplexed and pondering this Encounter.

SCRIPTURES That come to mind...

Matthew 23:28 (CEV)That's what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.

Isaiah 5:20 (NKJV)Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Luke 6:45 (NKJV) A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Luke 11:34 (NCV) Your eye is a light for the body. When your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But when your eyes are evil, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Acts 13:10 (GNT) and said, "You son of the Devil! You are the enemy of everything that is good. You are full of all kinds of evil tricks, and you always keep trying to turn the Lord's truths into lies!

2 Corinthians 4:4 (GNT) They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

2 Corinthians 6:14 (CEV) Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?

Ephesians 4:29 (AMPC) Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God's favor) to those who hear it.

1 Timothy 6:12 (AMP) Fight the good fight of the faith [in the conflict with evil]; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and [for which] you made the good confession [of faith] in the presence of many 

Titus 1:15 (TLB)A person who is pure of heart sees goodness and purity in everything; but a person whose own heart is evil and untrusting finds evil in everything, for his dirty mind and rebellious heart color all he sees and hears.

Titus 1:16 (ERV)They say they know God, but the evil things they do show that they don't accept him. They are disgusting. They refuse to obey God and are not capable of doing anything good.

James 2:7 (GNT) They are the ones who speak evil of that good name which has been given to you.

Psalm 94:12 (MSG)How blessed the man you train, GOD, the woman you instruct in your Word, Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for the wicked. GOD will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people. Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.

Proverbs 2:22 (TLB) evil men lose the good things they might have had, and they themselves shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 4:16 (MSG) Evil people are restless unless they're making trouble; They can't get a good night's sleep unless they've made life miserable for somebody. Perversity is their food and drink, violence their drug of choice.

Proverbs 10:32 (NCV)Good people know the right thing to say, but evil people only tell lies.

Proverbs 11:9 (NCV) With words an evil person can destroy a neighbor, but a good person will escape by being resourceful 

Proverbs 12:6 (ERV)Evil people use their words to hurt others, but the words from good people can save others from danger.

Proverbs 13:2 (TLB)The good man wins his case by careful argument; the evil-minded only wants to fight.

Proverbs 15:28 (CEV)Good people think before they answer, but the wicked speak evil without ever thinking.